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Show A PRIVATE CAR. The private car of D. C. Jackling, the Utah copper king, in charge of Chas. Jones, the porter, has been in the yards during the week, undergoing repairs to its electric mechanism, including an axle-generating electric motor and a storage battery. The car is a palace more than that, it is a real home on wheels, with more comforts than are to be had in half the fashionable residences resi-dences of a city. Its 83 feet of length is made up of heavy steely laced with steel, and every inch of space is put to some use. The car is said to be the very latest in Pullman construction, with every I improvement and convenience known to the builders of private cars. There is gas light and electric light, disappearing berth lights and disappearing wash basins, electric fans, a suite of rooms with the beds ready-made, bath room with shower baths, library shelves, bureau and dresser, silverware and cutglass closets, electric push buttons, and a cosy corner where Porter Jones and Chef "Daddy" Martin, when tucked away for the night, might play hide-and-seek and never be caught. Everywhere, inside and outside the car, is the Bign of copper, a circle K and cross, and even the sofa pillows are worked in this sign in the color of the red metal. When out on the road the owner sits down to his desk and, away from intrusion, keeps himself and his secretary busy in tho office compartments allotted to that purpose. The car is said to have cost $35,000 and it marks the wonderful improvements made in car construction and arrangement since the first railroad car in this country a transformation which has come within the lifetime of many men now living. |